Danger ahead! Pivots quite strongly from somewhat reasonable market discussion to advocating communism/socialism. Reminds me of college...
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jasonbarrah commented on Ask HN: Those who moved careers from the West to China, what's your experience? · Posted by u/jaxbot
As a Canadian living in and working in America, I have a similar although less dramatic moral difficulty. The fact is that the American government is curiously abusive compared to your average developed national government.
One of these things is not like the other. You lack much perspective.
jasonbarrah commented on Is porn making young men impotent? theguardian.com/lifeandst... · Posted by u/drugme
Isn't it much more likely the marked decline in testosterone is to blame?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17062768
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A man in the 1980s had a testosterone level of around 525, that level is now getting into the 400s, this is a massive change in the hormone that is responsible for sex drive, etc.
My money is still on cell phones radiation from the front pocket.
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I was almost certain that this article was about my WIFI enabled Sous Vide cooker being hacked.
Stay away from my cooking times and trade secrets China! These ribs are fall off the bone tender!
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jasonbarrah commented on The relationship between age and wisdom-related performance (1999) journals.sagepub.com/doi/... · Posted by u/arikr
Most people definitely become wiser with age. Maybe the results are skewed because millennials are a particularly wise generation which have to deal with increasingly complex social, economic and environmental problems and this forces them to think more and ask more questions. Also, the internet has given millenials a big advantage in terms of finding information. It's not fair to compare one generation with another completely different generation; we need to track people from the same generation over a long period of time in order to get meaningful results.
This study is from 1999, before the internet as we know it, and long before children walked around with smartphones in their pockets. Its also very clear from you answer that you are a young person. I wonder if your answer will change when you are 75?
I'm not seeing anything potentially libelous in this proposal (assuming that the OP claims are not purely made up), as truth can't be libel.
I think he was commenting on the generational trend. There is naturally going to be a shift when two billion new users enter a media landscape that was previously only occupied by a few professional firms. In addition, I think it would be hard for an intellectually honest person to deny that in the current age of click bait news that agencies of all stripes are running articles with less corroborating evidence than they would have in the past so as to be the first ones to the scoop. Unfortunately, Russian facebook trolls have set the new burden of proof for online kangaroo courts, and it is not much.
https://www.ft.com/content/7c6700bc-2976-11e6-8b18-91555f2f4...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/business/mckinsey-hedge-f...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-08/mckinsey-...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/reader-center/mckinsey-he...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/world/africa/mckinsey-sou...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-21/mckinsey-...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/business/mckinsey-bankrup...
edit: A couple of people pinged me on the FT article, which was groundbreaking, and a one-week copy can now be found here:
https://pastebin.com/jqkAytZp